Dusty,
First off I totally appreciate you and your skills on cash games. What you have done and achieved is ..well quite frankly is amazing. Your contribution to this forum and continued responses to questions are very welcomed and appreciated by me and I'm very certain all contributing members. And, will look forward to reading all Q & A's in the future.
In the meanwhile... Any insights how a tourney ( STT and MTT) player could transition into a profitable cash game player? Cash games seem to me to be more sick with the bad beats? Or is that the variance ? Do you or would you...recommend that a profitting tourney player transition into a cash game player? Try to add it to arsenal ?
I'm no Phil Ivey, nor experienced in online cash games...So what do you feel the best path might be, to obtain more desirable ROI. Learn cash or stay tourney? Thanks again and I hope you will play sometime in one of our buy in events ( I'll front ya...no worries) or freerolls.
Sincerely,
-Pool
ok you asked for it
I feel like you wrote pretty cop-out responses for #1/2 so I'm gonna try to rephrase them:
1. You basically admitted that your job doesn't benefit society in any way. Does it bother you that 90%+ of the working population is doing something that in some way helps society while yours doesn't? Almost every single other job in society provides a service someone else is willing to pay for. Your job preys on people who think they are better than they really are at the game and although there is the occasional rich recreational gambler who knows he's paying to have fun, I would argue that the Guy Laliberte's are not the majority of poker fish and that most are people with gambling problems and/or think they have an edge when they don't. How do you justify to yourself what you've chosen to do in life doesn't help society while most people in the world spend their lives doing something that even if indirectly, somehow does help society? Not trying to be a dick and I have my own answer, I'm just curious as to what yours is.
2. Your Peyton Manning example is actually perfect. Probably the majority of boys growing up want to be like him. There are far more than 30 kids growing up in this country that work their ass off to try to be the best QB they can be. Yet only 30 end up starting in the NFL at any given time. I would argue that the reason is there are enough people that work their ass off to be the best QB they can and the ones that make it are the ones who work their ass off AND have a natural ability. So I agree with you right now about most people that are reasonably intelligent being able to work hard and be able to beat small stakes no limit hold 'em. But what's happening is more and more people are working hard and eventually I think it will come to a point where you have to work extremely hard AND have some sort of natural ability, whether it's intelligence or something else, to win at any decent stakes at poker in the future sometime. I'm not sure how far ahead that is, but I see it as the natural progression. Ten years ago it didn't even take that much work. Now if you put in the work you can do it. In ten years I can see you not only needing to put in a ton of work but also being gifted in the game to succeed.
So I guess the question is do you agree with me or do you believe because of recreational fish that it will always be possible with hard work for a person of average intelligence to be successful in the game of poker?
11. Thoughts on the Jason Ho scandal? Did that effect how trusting you are of other people in the industry or do you think it's just a rare exception?
12. Do you think people are too quick to trust people in the poker world? High stakes players will trade tens of thousands of dollars between sites without thinking when any transfer that large in the real world would definitely have lawyers and contracts involved.
13. I'm likely going to play the WSOP ME too, although probably gonna be backed unless I win a satty since I don't play quite as high as you and don't want to pay 10k for one tourney. We gonna take 1st/2nd?
14. What are your thoughts on Ultimate Bet? They claim to be under new management and be perfectly straight but recent posts on 2p2 have claimed otherwise and it seems they are still being extremely dishonest with how the cheating scandal happened and what they are doing to ensure it never happens again. On top of that after new management they've had a software bug where the pot shipped the wrong way to Phil Hellmuth. Would you really trust your money on a site like that? Does it bother you that sites like Cardschat will still endorse Ultimate Bet and hold tourneys there after we've seen how they treat their customers?
15. If you were going to die next week, what would you do this week?
16. If I offered you a flip for your net worth, how weighted would the coin have to be in your favor to take it?
17. If I offered you a 55/45 flip in your favor, what percentage of your net worth would you put on the line?
18. Cherry or Apple Pie?
19. Chocolate or Vanilla ice cream?
20. You can decide to either never play golf again in your life or never play poker again in your life. Which do you pick?
21. I know you used to completely idolize Tiger Woods. Has what's come out in the last few months ruined your opinion of him or do you still admire him because of the amazing athlete that he is?
ok that's all I can think of for now
wow , happy to see you're still here
QUESTION # 1 I have tried reading books to improve but just don't seam to learn very easy that way . can coaching overcome that and be worth the good money to an average player who realizes he will probably never be good enough to play for a living.
#2 do you know or have you ever played with Chris Ferguson .
#3 can a poker player make a living on looks alone ? lol ( kidding )
thanks for helping so many people with your valuable time , much appreciated
p.s..probably missed it and will look but .... handicap in golf ?
that will help me learn how to graph my progress so I will know better when to take the next step in terms of my skill/ability as opposed to just advancing according to BR, (or is THE way?) as well as helping me determine which game is my strongest one - SnG, Rings MTT etc. and if and when I should move on to a new game?.....I have been following this thread, but not yet posted any questions.
First off, as many have already said, kudos to you for taking your time to do this. It is also a definite good business move, as I am ordering your "Treat your Poker Like a Business"....
Which brings me to my questions:
1.) Which Books/Websites/Blogs do you recommend, and in what order to be consumed IYO? I have Harrington on Hold'em 1+2, Sit and Go Strategy by Moshman, and have ordered "Hold'em Poker: A completes guide to playing the game" by Sklansky. I played micro stake ring, but am starting to re-evaluate my whole approach, and at the moment playing only low buy-in SnGs. I am doing a month-to-month plan, wont go into details, but, as well as with help here at CC, am using guide lines from the above mentioned books (with Moshman being my book-Guru at the moment) but will read and re-read and apply all I absorb. My playing time/Study time is respectively 25%/75% at the moment, a big change for me.
2.) As I am a relative beginner, I realize micro stakes are my only realistic option. How do I best decide when to play and apply new concepts, as opposed to continue reading/studying more? Is this a question that can be answered?
3.) How do I measure bad play as opposed to variance so I know when I am playing correctly? I post some hands but have not posted a lot here in HA. Software??? (Freeware..... poor musician thing......)
4.) Is it worth playing play money games to improve or are the differences in real/play money to great to reap strategy benefits from play money?
5.) Is there any websites/blogs/books (maybe your book that I will get would be your answer here?
6.) Have you ever had a more awesome experience in you life then the birth and growth of your daughter????? Mine is 7 1/2 and brings me joy greater everyday, no matter what else is happening in my life!! OK, my wife is cool too, but, man, that little girl
She's definitely the best. Sorry Leatherwife 
Yeah I've watched this going on for awhile, and it was addressed recently in Dusty's blog. From my perspective, and this is solely my opinion as a spectator to the whole debacle who didn't know much of Dusty until he started posting here, AEJones has always been out of line with this. And he's really coming off as quite the hypocrite lately. From his comments about how many hands an internet pro plays in a month, it has become pretty clear he didn't know what he was talking about. To wit, he's always bashed Dusty about being a "bumhunter" (which I don't understand -- isn't this what all poker players do?), but now has hired his very own "bumhunter" who he claims can't be a bumhunter because you "can't bumhunt playing 50K hands a month" like his guy does. Dusty plays 3-4x that much in a month, yet Dusty has always been one of those dirty bumhunters. Wat?
I've only been reading on here, or posts from fulltilts pros is that good???
:hmmmm:
